Local food bank says it is only a third of the way to its fundraising target and missing about 25 per cent of the food it needs to keep shelves stocked through to the summer.
With just one week remaining in its Spring Campaign, the Barrie Food Bank is calling on the community s generosity to help it reach its goals of collecting 100,000 pounds of food and $250,000.
It’s estimated that across Ontario, 61 per cent of people who access food banks would be homeless without them. A London MP says a national school lunch program would change that.